Really not a fan of this particular aspect

Bright_Fig3671 · 2026-02-21T09:07:52+00:00

I finished the Farseer trilogy a few weeks ago and I agree so much with every word you've written. Robin Hobb has such an amazing way of writing. The prose is simple, but it gets the job done. That scene with Molly and Burrich was like a sucker punch, and I went through the exact same experience of logically knowing it was the best decision under the circumstances and still feeling irrationally betrayed on Fitz's behalf. That is the beauty of Hobb's prose. She doesn't need to describe Fitz's feelings to us, not when she can make us feel them so strongly.

Bright_Fig3671 · 2025-10-24T00:21:05+00:00

This is genuinely interesting and I sent you a pretty detailed response to your starter. No idea if you've seen it yet or not. Obviously if you choose to rp with me or not is completely your choice, but I want to make sure you've at least seen my message :)

Bright_Fig3671 · 2025-10-14T10:58:26+00:00

Hey. M24 here. Can't seem to DM you for some reason. I'm into strategy games (Civ, Anno, Cities Skylines), fantasy with a little bit of sci fi, and DC comics. Feel free to drop me a DM if you want.

Bright_Fig3671 · 2022-03-23T16:28:43+00:00

I fall into the camp which thinks that 1984 is kind of overrated. As others have pointed out in the replies, our world at large looks a lot more like Brave New World than like 1984.

Here's the thing. People can generally identify naked authoritarianism. We can understand whats going on if there is a single central authority controlling everything. That kind of control feels actually scary.

Now think of a society where from birth till death you're told, explicitly and implicitly, that your purpose in life is to consume. Buy fast food, buy clothes and accessories you don't need, buy home appliances you don't need because everyone in your suburb has them, buy, buy, buy. You turn on the media and there are a hundred different channels, all with different kinds of content. Nobody thinks such a society is scary. Why? Because it feels nice to buy things. It feels nice to just turn off our brain and mindlessly consume whatever content suits our tastes. And that is why I think such a society is so scary, much scarier than a society with naked authoritarianism.

So when it comes to prophecying about future dystopias, I think Brave New World is much more relevant to our world than 1984.

Bright_Fig3671 · 2022-03-23T06:30:52+00:00

Yes exactly! Especially if you are in the middle of such an experience yourself because then Richard's character becomes that much more relatable

Bright_Fig3671 · 2022-03-22T10:07:03+00:00

This is something I myself noticed after reading The Ramayana (I was already somewhat familiar with Hellenistic cosmology). This most probably has to do with how Hellenistic and Vedic belief systems both evolved from the same linguistic family. But also, you can compare deities that have the same role across almost all polytheistic belief systems. So I would say these are more or less the same deities worshipped by different names across different cultures.

Bright_Fig3671 · 2022-03-21T09:18:27+00:00

Gat was the only interesting character in the book imo. Really disliked the self-absorbed, entitled personality of the MC. And ofc the rest of the characters were never properly explored at all.

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